Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disconnect stash from its base commit

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:04:19 -0700

Abhijit Menon-Sen <[email-masked]> writes:

> At 2008-07-02 12:01:35 -0700, [email-masked] wrote:
>>
>> 	But that imaginary "stash branch" command would always give you
>> 	the exact state you were in and creates a clean fork to finish
>> 	what you were doing, and continue.
>
> Nice idea. Something as simple as the appended diff?
>
> I reversed the stash/branch arguments so that one need specify only the
> branch name. Playing with it a little, it feels very useful.

I'd further suggest to delete the stash automatically when you create a
new branch out of it.